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Karen Gushta / Op-Ed Contributor

As I drove my sister to the airport after her Thanksgiving visit, she shared that she was reading a book on the spiritual gifts. One of the blocks to exercising our gifts, the author noted, is "gift envy."

As an evangelical African-American, Dr. Tony Evans has much to say to white evangelicals about the racial divide inside the church in America. Oneness Embraced is a call to the church to "oneness," which, Evans says, "glorifies God like nothing else ..

Those who are now dancing in celebration over the Supreme Court's decisions may think that our nation is now set on a course toward the inevitable federal mandate of same-sex marriage. That assumption rests on foundations of sand.

If we are to protect the lives of the innocent from those who devise evil, we must shift the focus from a manufactured right of women to "control their own bodies" to the very real Constitutional right to life of the unborn.

Any young woman or teen who gets pregnant out-of-wedlock faces three choices: abort her baby; keep her baby, or release her baby for adoption. How she decides will impact her and her baby and in many cases it will affect the man who fathered the chil..

Contentment is the antidote to covetousness, and it is the foundation for service to others. For when we are content in Christ our focus moves away from ourselves and on to others. Instead of looking inward and thinking of what we lack, we look upwar..

There's one horror story unfolding in the news that I think everyone should be following. That's the story of the trial of former abortionist, Kermit Gosnell. The horror story of Gosnell's activities in his West Philadelphia abortion center should be..

By using Jesus as their foil, SNL played off the one characteristic most people associate with Jesus, His forgiveness. The skit "works" because Jesus is portrayed, in satiric fashion, in a way that is inconsistent with His character.

What's the modern equivalent of the Roman emperors' bread and circuses? Here's my suggestion: beer and porn. It occurred to me that the DOJ is more concerned about keeping the price of beer down than limiting the number of pornographers.

This is not a subject I enjoy writing about. Yet it is so serious, that as Christians, I believe we need to shine a light on it and do our utmost to combat it. It's not "someone else's problem." It's a problem that is corroding the soul of America an..

Those who now identify the HHS mandate simply as the "contraception mandate" ignore the fact that the majority of these suits are based on the religious belief that human life is sacred. Therefore, providing so-called emergency contraception—abortifa..

Today, the government has tried to reinterpret the First Amendment from freedom to practice your religion, to a more narrow freedom to worship, which would limit your freedom to the hour a week you are at a house of worship.

What sets this non-profit apart from most is the fact that in 2011-2012 it received 45 percent of its total revenue from government health services grants and reimbursements, including payments from Medicaid managed care plans. It is listed by the IR..

What is the primary issue in this election? Foreign policy? The economy? If the lives of the future generations of America's children are our greatest treasure, then we should clearly vote for those who have pledged to protect them.

Has government become less of a threat and more like a "friend indeed in time of need?" Are people now turning to the government for help in tough times, instead of going to family, friends, church, and community organizations? If they are, the effor..

Perhaps it's not too late for us to start learning what's in the Constitution. Maybe then we will require our elected officials to abide by it. But at present, as economist Walter Williams says in his book, Do the Right Thing: "Much of what federal, ..

The generation of young people who are now entering college or have recently graduated are suffering more than any other in this poor economy. And their story is one of the most overlooked and underreported.

The truth is: abortion hurts women. Giving a woman the abortion option—whether she is the victim of a rape or a married woman with unplanned pregnancy—is not the "compassionate answer." Abortion does not bring healing; it brings misery, pain, and suf..

In spite of the efforts of the political left to make same-sex "marriage" a political issue, it remains a deeply moral issue—one that we as Christians must not back away from, even if it means becoming the brunt of personal attacks.